Marta Kos from Slovenia is the EU Commissioner for Enlargement. Marta Kos: I grew up in communist Yugoslavia and when my country, Slovenia, decided to declare independence, the biggest wish was to belong to a community of values and democracy.

European Union governments want Brussels to keep secret how they plan to phase out using Russian oil and gas by the end of 2027, an internal EU document seen by Reuters showed.

Russia is hiring migrants from outside the European Union to commit crimes, spread fear and undermine trust in national governments. Source: annual report for 2024 of the Czech intelligence service (BIS),

China’s foreign minister touted the three-year war as keeping the US focused on Ukraine, claiming that if the war were to end, Washington would start putting its full attention in the

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to hold more meetings with U.S. officials at the Ukraine Recovery Conference.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded Ukraine’s capital with another major missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, killing at least two people and causing fires across Kyiv a day after the heaviest drone attack so far in the more than three-year war, Ukrainian officials said.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday urged Slovakia to drop its veto on the European Union's new sanctions package against Russia. At the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, Merz emphasized that all countries should increase pressure on Moscow to compel Russian leadership to return to the negotiating table and end the war in Ukraine.

In the first quarter of 2022, the EU got 30% of its natural gas imports from Russia, according to the Institute of Energy Economics. Compare that to 2019, when Russia accounted for more than 41% ...